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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1904)
WEST SIDE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON x SI A . ; 111 leal to 'm p .ObbsbM 1 ji -J--BBasJB- If not and your teeth are bad you should wrthout de lay, it will aara you money. By our New Syetem we can extract your teeth whether one or thirty without pain; also Fill them or Crown them in theiame nun. ner. This ia no adertin dodge. But it bona fide statement. All work it done painlett. The work we do it of the hitheet grade, the beet of material be ing need and it put in your mouth tolaat from ten to twenty yeare. If you have platet that don t HI ov work that ia unsatitfactory come tnd talk it over, you wont regret the time spent in doing so. We charge you from 40 per cent, to 50 per cent lets than you hare paid in the past. Now to turn it all up our m w uruuveiwiu J pailesa manner at half the pric you always paid. Portland Office, The Gambling Mania. The disclosures coming out relative to the Canfleld-Vanderbllt gambling -cases In New lark call attention to the mania that Is ruining so many young men throughout the land. They bring to mind another case where a young man went west, failed to find work at once, resorted to gambling, lost all he had. resorted to forgery to pay his debts and was soon In Jail, with the door of the penitentiary star Ing him In the face. The story Is not new. It la very, very old. That la the pity of It It Is the road over which many bright and capable young men have traveled. The average man usually goes Into gam bling with the erroneous Idea that he can get something for nothing. In the wlndup the something Is usual Jy taken by the other fellow. When an innocent goes up against a ure thing, he is bound to get the worst of It If It Is at cards, he plays against men who are trained in the art and who make their living that way. If they did not fleece Just such victims as be, they would not be In the business. When he tries the roulette wheel or other similar devices, he contributes to the profits of the house. It makes Its money In that way. If it did not take In more than It gives out, it would not run the wheels. In any case the novice stands to lose. This Is aside from the ethics of gam bling If there are any ethics In It The whole thing Is founded on a false hood. The only way you can get any thing In this world Is to give an equiv alent for It If you get it In any other way, you must pay the debt some time, some place. There must be entire recompense. The law of justice Is ex act and must be met to the uttermost farthing. This, however, Is farther away. Most people think only of the Immediate effects, and the immediate effects are also bad. This Is true whether you play over a men table or In a bucket shop. in the latter case you also go up against pro fessionals, who make their living out of the business. Even If you win for a time it will lead yon on to a point where you will lose more than you have won. But suppose you are one out of a thousand and are lucky enough to win for an extended time. Ton are taking tnonev that does not belong to you. money that some one else has earned, money perhaps that some Innocent Wile IOU CUUUiCU UCWi w - a t B h rrftd work dor. in So Will be at the Little Palace Hotel, Independence, EVERY FRIDAY 342J Washington street. If you have the first spark of genuine manhood, such money will burn your pockets. . ' But the probability la always against your winning. And it ia a path that, If followed far enough, ends in the same way. Some morning you. will awaken, as did this young man, with a Jail grating between you and the light Where Womaa la Heroic The determination to do her duty at all costs Inspires the society woman of today as much as It did the defenders of the British flag at Trafalgar. She i rrvp into action with a grim resolve to dance and dine as all her friends ex- head splitting and she Knows sne is grewsomely bored, she will heroically go through her day's programme, forti fied by the consciousness of having done her duty. Ladles' Field. Wauda Dmni With Burnt Straw. At a cost of about 25 cents Japanese doctors can dress the wounds of 500 men. They use a finely powdered charcoal obtained by the slow combus tion of straw In closed furnaces. Sa chets filled with it are applied to the wounds, and Its antiseptic and ab sorbent qualities generally effect a rapid cure. Carlrle on Thackeray. , Of Thackeray Carlyle wrote: "Thack eray and his two girls were with us. I had never seen blm so well before. There Is a great deal of talent in him, a great deal of sensibility, Irritability, sensuality, vanity without limit and nothing or little but sentlmentalism and play-actorlsm to guide it all with." Canal. Thla. Tom That pretty Miss Wllklns seems to have quite a number of eligi ble young men in her train. Jack Yes, and It's only a matter of time until there will be a smashup to that train, with only one survivor. Illustrated Bite. ' HU Iavltmtloaa. natsv Where my brother goes he's usually asked to call again. vony He must be very popular. Daisy No. He's a bill collector. Brnklx Loaae. "Too smoked only ten cigars on your wedding trip that's one a day." "No. Ten on the last day." Har per's Basar. Bow Ha Save Hint. Hewitt That fallow saved me from w... .i,..ro-r Tnrett How waa that? Hewitt He married the girl I was en- gaged to. CROWN Aa Inventive Fatally. Thomas A. Edison Is generally re garded as the world's greatest Inventor. It a vote were taken on the proposition, be would undoubtedly receive eo large a majority that the others would be In the "also ran" class. But.lt appears that Mr. Edison, great as he la, does not monopolize the Inventive talent of the family. Mrs. Edison lso shines, and not wholly by reflected light either. Mrs. Edison's Invention If It may be called that Is both domestic and re ligious. She believes she has solved the problem of the hiisbandless church. As Is well known, many husbands are compelled to forego the Sunday sermon and the Sunday Bible lesson because of domestic duties. Somebody must stay home with the children. This is particularly true of very young chil dren. And it cannot be expected that the wife, who has the children on her bands six days in the week, should be the one to suffer from the want of the spiritual uplift. No fair minded bus band will keep his wife from church. Bather win be take the burden of the household on himself temporarily. It is a realization of this that has caused Mrs. Edison to suggest to the pastor of her church at Orange, N. 3 the plan of a church nursery. This Is to be located in the basement and there will be competent nurses for ba bies and children who are too young to enter the Sunday school classes. Thus, while the husband and wife are per mitted to hear the sermon and Join In the services upstairs, they may be consoled by knowing that the other members of the family are In good hands downstairs. And only In bad weather, when it Is Inadvisable to take the baby from the house, will the hus band be kept from church. This plan is certainly ingenious and novel. In the recent magazine discus sions on the subject of men staying away from church none of the. able writers hit on this simple and ap parent reason. The man stays at home to take care of the baby. It remained for a woman to announce the discov ery and also to find a way out of the difficulty. Most of the masculine light shed on the subject indicated that the sermons should be Improved. In Mrs. Edison's opinion this Is not necessary. Provide a means of caring for the chil dren and the problem Is solved. This will also start tha children going to church early In life. By all mean let us have the church basement nursery. Gold Crowns , Porcelain Crowns. Salem Office, Pedestalana Have Rights. The recent stoning of automobiles In New York, wanton and rowdylsh as it Is, does not wholly arise from the boodlumlsiu of the young toughs of the streets of th metropolis, but In a way - j i i m IS tne result or me recaiess unriug ui the machlnen themselves. These veri table locomotives, going frequently at railroad speed, are a menace to human life. The action of the New York boys In a way voiced a public protest against the previous lawless acts of those In charge of these Juggernauts. Thus lawlessness begets lawlessness. The throwing of stones Is not legiti mate, but the protest Is. The pedes trian has some rights that even the chauffeur la bound to respect The proper appeal, however, is to the courts. That this appeal can be made successfully has been demonstrated In very many Instances. The latest and the most unique les son was that taught by Judge Bamber ger of the Philadelphia common pleas court The haughty chauffeur bad merely run down a rheumatic old gen tleman, not Injuring him severely, but sending hlra to the hospital for twenty one days for repairs. The chauffeur was arrested and taken before a mag istrate, who fined him $21 and sent him to Jail for twenty-one days. On ap peal being taken to the court over which Judge Salzberger presided It was contended that the penalty was too severe and that to send a gentle man to Jail was an unusual punish ment But Judge Salzberger said: The pedestrian is entitled to the free dom of the streets with reasonable as surances of safety, despite the coming: of the automobile. Even though bent with age or crippled with rheumatism he still retains tha right to life and to limb, and that right must be respected. The Judg ment of flue and Imprisonment Is af firmed. A few more such lessons us that read by the Philadelphia Judge will go a long way toward abating the evil. Let the drivers of these machines be taught to abide by the law, and the public, even that portion of it represented by the New York hoodlum, will do like wise. Life must not be endangered, even for the sport of those who ride In automobiles. What Is needed above all things Is a little public virtue, the consideration for others. Selfish gratification at the sxpense of one's fellow beings is noth ing less than a crime. It should be so regarded. $5.00 FILLINGS 500 UP Examination Free Steusloff Building, corner Court and Liberty streets. Tha Suicide Mania. The papers of each day chronicle some act of self destruction. It is saw to say that only a few of the cases get Into the public prints. A few weeks ago It was a Pittsburg young man who took his life because his dinner was late. A short time before that It was a western boy who had run away from borne and was too proud to write back for help. Kneeling down by a railroad track, be let a freight engine pass over his bared neck. Too horrible to reproduce, you sayt No. It Is purt of the drama of life. It has Its pluee and teaches its moral. The very tragedy of It may help to burn the lesson Into our hearts. A young life that might have been happy and useful wrecked through weakness and a petulant whim. The training given by the world untried. The school ing of life lost An added burden to carry by a soul. An added wrong to be expiated. A father's toll and a mother's pains and tears unrepaid. And all for what? A loss of nerve. A false egotism called pride, A weak thought that somebody would appreciate him now. A bodily machine, built up at In finite pains, broken and useless. An opportunity utterly thrown away. A soul left naked with Its sense of loss and guilt " The suicide question Is one that should be faced without mincing words. It is growing too prevalent. The old Idea was that only the Insane took their lives. That Idea has passed out To perhaps every bumau being at some time comes the temptation of self destruction. That is the crucial test the trial by fire. He who overcomes la better and stronger forever after. And let it be said, to the honor of the race, that ninety-nine out of a hundred aye, more than that do overcome. There Is that much more bravery than cow ardice. Taken all In all, our lives are pretty much alike. They all have their hard places If not In one way, then in an other. The trial comes to each. The one who flees does not do so because he faces any greater discouragement than his brothers. He runs away because be lacks nerve and strength. He is a deserter from the battle of life. We are sent into this world to train u. to test us. He shows himself a weakling who turns tall to a few puny circumstances. Talk about pridel The man wlth any Plates $5.00 true pride would scorn to acknowledge himself beaten In any such way The world is here for our use In building ourselves, and be makes the poorest use of It who runs away from It These remarks are not aimed at tha particular case In point, which Is piti ful enough. That Is past. Let it be covered by the mantle of charity. We speak rather to the living, who must meet the same test of fire and who should come out of the ordeal purified, refined and relnvlgorated. Hawaiian Dirge. All peoples scatter flowers over thcli dead, the bouquets being verbal as well as literal. But for linguistic blos soms, veritable roses and popples and sunflowers of speech, commend us to the Hawaltans. Surely our newly ac quired Pacific possessions are prolific lu language If nothing else. Here, for example, is the lamentation over the body of a tribal queen: "Ceasing from storm, the sea grow calm and glaBsy. Like a puff of wind flitting over it ao her spirit glides away to the far regions beyond Kahlkl. "She flies, averting her eyes; she fades away in the wild mists of the northland the deep, dark, mysterious north. . ' "She has gone from us to the courts of Kane, treading royally the red streaked path of the rosy dawn, .the misty broken road to Kanaloa. An ebbing' tide flows out, ladened with departing wealth. She fled at the first gleam of the dawn, at the faint ending of the cut-off night "Oh, our beloved one! Our departed onel Our bemoaned onel "Oh, the pain, the breaking up, the rushing of tears,- the falling of the flowers scattered of grief! "Our true liege lady was she, and I Crieve. Love as to a sister Is mine, yet not to a sister. Yea, a sister, chosen and separate in the Lord, born of the Holy Spirit of the one Father of us all. Thus, thus I feel that she Is mine to sorrow for. The precious name, sister. Is Indeed ours by dear Inheritance. Alas, my sister! My beloved sharer In sweet labor. Oh, my halovedl Oh, center of thought!" It Is worth while dying for a panegyr ic like that It takes one back to Greece and to the primitive peoples at the dawn of the world.